ABOUT

PRACTICE

I am interested in articulating the immaterial in the material. The work takes the form of spatially responsive sculptural assemblages and installation that transform the gallery into un-hinged environments in which desires, fears and secrets are given shape and mesh with the everyday. I aim for my installations to be emotional and psychological, yet playful and absurd arrangements in which the viewer participates in a phenomenological experience. My work is informed by themes such as impermanence, fantasy, excess and biological processes such as growth, decay and mutation. Central to my practice is an investigation into actions, materials and process that can physically articulate these ideas. Ephemeral, corporeal and malleable materials, such as wax and plasticine are used and often reworked and incorporated into new work. These materials retain memory of their previous incarnation allowing the sculptural works to become an indefinable temporal collage of different locations, thoughts and ideas. Processes such as repetition and chance are also employed as a means to disconnect from control, generating unpredictable differences and allowing mutations and unexpected outcomes to emerge. My practice is multi-disciplinary, expanding from drawing and photography into painting, performance sculpture and installation.

CURRENT and UPCOMING

Wild at Heart

TOYOTA COMMUNITY SPIRIT GALLERY Of Snowflakes and Spacetime group exhibition October/March 2011.

http://www.watcharts.com.au/toyota.html

Through the Night

TWENTY BY THIRTY GALLERY Melbourne December 2010.

http://www.twentybythirtygallery.com/ 


The Forest
LINDEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Innovatos exhibition Melbourne December 2011.
http://www.lindenarts.org/

CONTACT

rebecca.delange@gmail.com